SECONDARY STORAGE

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Secondary Storage
Its Stores information. Direct Access Storage Devices. 1. Floppy Disk Drive (FDD). 2. Hard Disk Drive (HDD). 3. Optical Disk Sequential access storage devices and media(SASD). 1. Magnetic tape.

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Types of Storage

Hard disks Optical disks Floppy disks Magnetic tape

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Floppy Disks
Portable and removable. Magnetic charge on metal- oxide film coating. capacity on 1.44MB to 2.88MB. Access drive speed 600 r.p.m. Its is used for small amount of data. Less cost.

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Hard Disks
It is a secondary storage. It is used to stored the data's. ts a magnetic material. The information stored in 0(or)1. Inverted in IBM company in 1954. Higher capacity than floppy. Access drive speed 5,400-7,200. r.p.m.

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Optical Disks
CD(compact disk) DVD(Digital Versatile Disk)

CD (Compact Disk) Density:16.000 dpi (Dot per inch). Speed in 150KB/s to 6MB/S. Size up to 650MB upto 1GB. Rotational speed = data transfer time. Types of CDs CD-R CD-RW
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CD-R Compact disk Read. Disks are Burnt one at a time. Written to once Custom made music CDs CD-RW Compact disk-Read and Write. Erased , Write upto 1000 times.

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DVD

Digital Versatile Disk. Rapidly replacing CDs.

Higher capacity. 17 times the capacity of a CD.

DVD types

DVD-ROM Read only memory DVD-R Recordable

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DVD-RAM or DVD-RW Competing rewritable formats

Magnetic Tape
Sequential access Commonly used for backing-up data Very large capacity

Magnetic Tape Types

Tape cartridges Magnetic tape reels

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Tape cartridges Backup tape for microcomputer Capacities range from 120 MB to 5 GB Digital audio tape (DAT) Tape reels Minicomputer and mainframe 1/2 inch wide and 1/2 mile long Stores 1600 to 6400 cpi

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Other Types of Secondary Storage

Solid-state storage Internet hard drives Magnetic tape

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